Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-08
EnnM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of tho Alexs. GAzETrE]
WASHINGTON. D C.. S~pt. s. 1887.

Tsueeial Correspondence of tho Alexs. GAzETTE]
WASHINGTON. D C.. S~pt. S. 1887.
Mr.. Randall did lot fsiuro to Phiadel-
vf,;n Yesterday afternoon as re expected to
do. cut was unnvo;dablg detained hero on
private matters. As stated in this
correspondence yesterday, he has not
been invited 70 the White House,
AID has not scen the President since
his arrival. He has not been consulted
by the administration about the tariff, and
does not expect to be, but. il otherwise, he
does not hesitate TO say that his opinion on
the tariff, as on all other questions
unon which he has expressed them,
are formed upon mature consideration,
and that therefore he can not change
them even to please the President
Mr.. Randall has in his possession the letter
the President wrote 10 the superintendent
of the Mint at Philadelphia, stating that
tho appointment of Chester, an oiiicehoider
in the Mint,as delegate to the recent Penn
sylgana democratic convention, would &c
digagreeable 20 him, but he has not yet mace
it public Chester did go as delegate, ano
it is possible he may be removed Tor 1t; ne
specting the tariff bill, about which the re
cent consultations at Oak View nave Deen
held. il is reported that when completed 1t
elections, lest it might affect those elections
Among the strangers in the city to day i7
Judge Tebbs, of the county c5urt of Lou
doun county, Va. The Judge has no leai
tation in saying that in his opinion Mr.
RYAN will not only be renomineted for the
Virginia House of Delegates By the den
ocrats of his county, but that he will be re-
elected. Other people from the same coua-
ty say the temperance cause is very strong
there, and that upon its candidate all the
opposition to the regularly nominated dem
ocratc nominee will unite, and also that
the democracy of Loudour has lost cons!d
cradle strength in recent ve2rs.
Elk Representative Barbour left here this
morning for Culpeper, to attend the
agricultural fair now III progress there. Mr..
Barbour says The democratic committee OF
| Virginia, of which he is the chairman, is In
receipt Of letters from various parts OF the
State, that their general tenor ls decidedly
favorable, and that with proper work and
ordinary luck he thinks the democrats will
BIZ able to elect good working majority in
the next legislature.
Among the physicians in attendance upon
the Medical Congress here is DR.. Gray La
than, of Lynchburg. The Doctor says
,here are many distinguished foreign doc,
tors present, but that they are neither as
distinguished nor rs numerous as bad been
expected. He also says that so far as prac
tice is concerned America exce!s foreign
countries as we'll in surgery as in medicine.
Respecting politics in Lynohburg, the Doc
tor says the democrats have reg.ined con
troll of the city council there, end that, ns
Indicated by the recent primary, they are re
united and solid, and vii! elect their nom
inees for the legislature.
+, Mr.. VanAukeu, of Petersburg, who is still
loyal to General Malone though the General!
has not done fer him wat he could have
done, says that BIZ. Brady's present oPposl
ton 10 Malone amounts to nothing with
nobody ard will net inaIeuce single
vote except his own He. also says that
Brady was a great Andrew johnson man,
| and also, that on one occasion when col'ec
tor of internal revenue, Brady threatened
| to hava hiro, Van AukeD, removed from his
| place as tobacco inspector because he reiu2ed
to ipoca;e ne nomination OF Sherman by
the national republican convention.
The repoI. that the charters Count h1it
| kie Yitz iias ob.,;intd from the Chinese gov
erntent had bsen approved by the Chinese
minister hire AID that the Count had been
| offered and - fused 81 quarter Of 8 million
for his snare Of tie expected profits, are
both denied hesc 70 d:y.
Mr.. Porter, assistant Secretary of STATE,
does not now deny that be has rendered has
resignation 70 The Prc.ideut. and that the
reason he did so was the uDp.easartneas OF
bis relations with Secretary BayarG. 1t is
well known that NJ. Dayatd entered Tho
| State Department With any thing else than
coed manners, and it is sGid no has not im-
proved in that respect.
| Marv of tha forei0n 6nrlnyc hare lV
no means pleased with the treatment they
have received in this city. Indeed. most
every body says the management has
been any thing else than good. AT
the gathering at The pension office many
Of the people present were entirely out of
place, the reception at the White House was
by no means satisfactory. and the tickets to
soma of the other entertainments got into
such hands that others had to be substituted.
Some of the women at the pharmaceutical eXposi-
ton have been actually discovered purloining the
articles on exhibition.
In response to letter from tho postmaster Mt
Cincinnati, civil service commissioner Oberiy
| writes that the removal of q republican clerk in
tho Cincinnati postolicc simply because ho is q
republican sud without cause, will be an infrac-
ton of the civil service rules
THE CATHOLIC UN1vERsITY.-As stated
in the GAZETTE, the first meeting OF the
trustees of the Catholic University began n
Baltimore yesterday, Cardinal Gibbons in
the chair. Archbishops CorriGan, Of New
York, and Williams, of Boston; Bishops Ire.
land, of ST. Paul; Keane. of Richmond, and
Mgr. Farley, of New York, wero present
1t is said that $4,000 600 will be required to
build and place the University on solid
basis. OF that amount about 100000 has
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